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Libyans have suffered enough. Muammar Gaddafi must go | Nahla Daoudhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/feb/23/libyans-muammar-gaddafi
For 42 years, Gaddafi has repressed and brutalised his people. The west should support Libya's heroic struggle for freedom<p>Even to Libyans familiar with Muammar Gaddafi's oratory style, his speech last night surprised many of those watching. While the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/feb/23/muammar-gaddafi-madness" title="Guardian: Muammar Gaddafi: method in his 'madness'">logic was classic Gaddafi</a>, the tone was one none of us had heard before. The man was livid. Gaddafi had managed to keep his cool even when the US bombed Tripoli in April 1986 and destroyed his home at the Bab al-Aziziya barracks. But on 22 February, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/feb/22/muammar-gaddafi-urges-violent-showdown" title="Guardian: Gaddafi urges violent showdown and tells Libya 'I'll die a martyr'">speaking to a nation that had finally called his bluff on the power of the people</a>, he was clearly and visibly distressed.</p><p>His speech vacillated between angry threats, sarcasm, wounded pride, delusions of grandeur and back again. A carefully scripted intervention by an assistant allowed Gaddafi to fall back on familiar eccentricity – the broadcast had apparently been briefly interrupted and the nation had missed a few lines of poetry Gaddafi had read, so he reread them. Libya was burning and Gaddafi was entertaining the people with poetry. Nero, anyone?</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/feb/23/libyans-muammar-gaddafi">Continue reading...</a>Muammar GaddafiLibyaArab and Middle East unrestProtestMiddle East and North AfricaWorld newsAfricaWed, 23 Feb 2011 17:30:23 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/feb/23/libyans-muammar-gaddafiPhotograph: Hussein Malla/APA Libyan protester holds up a sign against Muammar Gaddafi during a demonstration, in Tobruk, Libya. Photograph: Hussein Malla/APPhotograph: Hussein Malla/APA Libyan protester holds up a sign against Muammar Gaddafi during a demonstration, in Tobruk, Libya. Photograph: Hussein Malla/APNahla Daoud2011-02-23T17:30:23Z